St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-12
William 0'Brien Opens His Campaign
Against Lord LansdOwne Before
Large Montreal Audience.
The Address Fairly Moderate in Tone,
Bat Bristling With Statistics and
Statements of Fact,
Which the Orator Claimed Showed the
Governor General in Anything
But Pleasant Light.
The Speech Heartily Received by an
Immense Audience--N0 Disturb
anCe Has Yet Occurred.

United Ireland, left the Grand Central
depot in New York, until his arrival
here this morning at o'clock, his jour
ney was without incident. He met and
was introduced to Chauncey NJ. Depew,
who was on the train. The two gentle
men passed compliments. ii. j. Cleran,
president of the National league at
Montreal; F. F. Donovan, of st. An
thongs Young Mems society, and p. A.
MuldOon, of the Montreal Post, went
down as deputation from the Montreal
National league, and boarded the train
at st. Johns, Que, about thirty miles
from Montreal. Mr.. O'Brien recognized
Mr.. Cleran, who was standing on the
platform, and whom he met last year at
the Chicago convention. An immense
crowd was present Oh the arrival of the
train i'll this city, and
CHEERED Justify
when MI. O'Brien stepped on the plat
form. Mr.. Cleran then stepped forward
and read an address of welcome, to
which Mr.. O'Brien responded briefly.
hands with Mr.. O'Brien at the conclu-
sion of his speech, and on his way to the
carriages which were in waiting to drive
the party to the hotel, he was nearly
lifted Off his feet. He occupies the same
suite of rooms at st. Lawrence hall that
Michael Davitt and Mr.. Parnell
did when they visited this city.
From the complete success in every way
attending the meeting this evening,
most of the rumOrS have been diScred-
tied regarding anything in thenature of
disturbance, so far, at all events. as
this city is concerned. The meeting
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branch of the Irish National league.
The hall, which is capable of accommo-
dating 2,000 people, was filled by
AN ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE,
among whom was large representa-
eral stages of the address Lord Lans-
downe's name was hissed. Mr..
O'Brien's appearance on the plat
form was the signal for an OutburSt of
cheering which lasted several minutes.
Mr.. O'Yrien said: MY first duty is to
thank the people of Montreal, and from
the bottom of my heart | do so, for the
extraordinary kindness | have received
since / entered their beautiful city, both
from those who agree with me and from
those who, perhaps, differ from me. l
desire at the outset to tackle the queS-
ton why l have come to Canada to ask a
hearing and ask your sympathy. | will
tell you in one wOrd-because the homes
of the poor people of Lugacurran, far
away in Ireland are desolate tonight,
and because the man who is responsible
for it is here in thehighest post of honor
in this great free land. 1 am only a
stranger, no doubt, and Lord Lansdowne
is very great, rich lord, but
judging by the feeling l have
experienced in Montreal to-day
l don't think to apologize for coming
here in our hour of need to claim your
sympathy and your assistance to save
the suffering tenantry of Ireland from
determination, and an determination by
Canadian money and Canadian gov
ernOr general. 1t is no pleasure to us
to worry you with our grievances, but
where else are we to turn when Lord
LandSdOwne sends the
SOLDIERS AND ARMED POLICE
to dispossess every tenant in Lugacur-
ran and to fling the old men and little
children out in the bitches. Our
enemies are not content with disarming
us in physical sense. The Tory gov
ernment is passing coercion bill
through parliament at this moment to
diSarm us even of our organization. to
break down the only protection the tell
antry of Ireland have left, to place us on
the plank-bed if we even attempt to
appeal to public opinion against such
cruel deeds as Lord LanSdOwne's. A
whole countryside may be swept bare
and plunged into WretchedneSS and sOr-
row, but it will be a crime for us to OF
ganiZe public meeting or to write an
article in a newspaper denOuncing it,.
Where, then, are we to turn, if not to
the public opinion Ofa kindred lands: or
ic tn M q arin, Ole fn
to you, to our cOuntrymen and our kin
dred? You, who can save the tenantry
of Lugacurran, and who alone can save
them from the fate that overlook, per-
hapS, the fathers of many man listen
ing to me long ago, in the great clear
anceS when the landlords had it all their
own way in Ireland. If we come to
Canada to ask you to befriend us and
to save our people, it is because this is
not the first time that Canada has stood
between their Irish people and the ag-
greSSOrS. 1t is not the first time that
you have stretched out the broad shield
of your sympathy to stay the march of
hunger and miSgovernment in Ireland.
1t will never be forgotten cf you in Ire
land that in
THE TERRIBLE WINTER
of 1879, when half million of our peo-
pie were suffering the pangS of hunger,
the parliament of the dominion voted
100000 to give food to the little children
and to the heart-brOken men and women
who were starving amid the richness of
that fertile land of Ireland. You did
not grudge us your charity-a charity
which the greed and blight of Irish land
lOrdism forced us, to our shame, to seek.
But our great leader, Mr.. Parnell, has
said he will never again beg the world
for aims for Irish landl0rdism. We are
now begging, not for aims, but to en-
able us to uprOOt that whole system of
Irish landlordism. We do not come to
ask you for 100000 for charity any
more, but to ask you to consider
ing of the 100000 year which you
give him. or which you enable him to
get, and if that be put to bad and in
human use we ask you to convey your
censure of Lord Lansdowne, as you
have a perfect right to do, as the free
citizens of self-governing nation.
Your parliament passed resolutions in
favor of home rule and strengthened
the hands of Mr.. Gladstone in his
blessed work of cOnciliation and of
peace and thrill of gratitude went
through Ireland the other day when the
same body passed resolutions condem-
ming the ab0mnable coercion bill, which
proposes to reduce our people to the
condition of negro slaves. The object
of the coercion bill is to enable men like
Lord LansdOwne to wiring
INToLERABLE RACK-RENT
out of Irish tenants. Its object is to
render it safe for every rack-renter to
| deSOlate the homes of Ireland as Lord
Lansdowne has desolated the homes OF